Reading+WebQuest

Here is an excerpt from the Reading WebQuest I created last year. It serves as a resource for teachers and parents, as well as an interactive student iStory.

There are many important areas of [|reading instruction]: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
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Children who have [|phonemic awareness skills] are likely to have an easier time learning to read and spell.

Relating sounds to letters is the heart of [|phonics instruction].

Before children learn to read print, they need to become aware of how the sounds in words work.

[|Phonological awareness] activities can involve work with phonemes, rhymes, words, syllables, and onsets and rimes.

[|Sight or core words] are words that good readers should instantly recognize without having to "figure them out."

The 100 most common words actually make up about 50 percent of the material we read.

The 25 most common words make up about one-third of our written material.

Repeated oral reading substantially improves word recognition, speed, and accuracy as well as fluency. [|Reading fluency] is the bridge between word recognition and comprehension.

Students can be taught to use comprehension strategies. [|Comprehension] is the reason for reading//.//


 * Here is the link to the entire WebQuest which is included on the Tanglewood Elementary webpage -**[|**http://www2.usd260.com/documents/tan/FirstGradeReadingWebquest.pdf**]